On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:54 AM, RJ Atkinson <rja.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> The selected values work today, and for past decades,
> for essentially all A4 printers and also for essentially
> all US-Letter printers, giving the same printed result.
If that's good enough for you to want to hobble our use of ASCII art forever, that's fine; others disagree with the tradeoff, particularly given how many creative ways people use ASCII art these days.
--Paul Hoffman